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VANDRA LEA MASEMANN 226 Evelyn Ave., Toronto, Ontario.

Canada M6P 2Z9

Tel (416) 767-1810 e-mail: vandra.masemann@utoronto.ca

EDUCATION:

1966 Anthropology B.A.(Honours) University of Toronto

1967 Social Anthropology M.A. University of Toronto

1972 Social Anthropology Ph.D. University of Toronto

CITIZENSHIP: Canadian

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1. January-May 2001 and 2002 and 2004 - present – Visiting and then Adjunct Associate

Professor, Comparative and International Development Education Program, Ontario

Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Co-ordinator, CIDE

Programme, 2007-2010.

2. June- July 2004, Visiting Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education Program, College

and Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services, Kent State University,

Kent, Ohio.

3. August - December 2000 - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Education -

Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of

Pittsburgh

4. August 1999 - January 2000 - Visiting Associate Professor, Comparative and Global

Studies, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, Graduate School of

Education, State University of New York at Buffalo

5. 1995 - 1998, Associate Professor, International/Intercultural Development Education

Program, Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, College of

Education, Florida State University

6. 1989, 1994 - Fall semester, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Educational

Organization, Administration and Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo.

7. 1990 - 1991, Facilitator, Partners in Change Project, East York, Ontario - Needs

assessment of delivery of municipal services to ethnocultural and racial minorities

8. 1987 - 1994, Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto.

9. 1985 - 1989, Consulting Anthropologist, Masemann and Mock, Consultants in the Social

Sciences, Toronto.

10. 1984 (Summer) and 1992 (Winter), Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Scarborough

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College, University of Toronto.

11. 1982 - 1985, Consulting Anthropologist, Inter Cultural Associates, Toronto.

12. 1980 - 1982, Assistant Professor - Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of

Education, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto. Principal, Continuing Education

courses in Multiculturalism in Education, Faculty of Education, for Ontario Ministry of

Education.

13. 1978 - 1980, Lecturer (part-time) - Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of

Education, University of Toronto. Lecturer (Intersession) - Department of Educational

Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

14. 1975 - 1978, Assistant Professor - Department of Educational Policy Studies, University

of Wisconsin-Madison.

15. 1972 - 1975, Assistant Professor - Department of Sociology in Education, Ontario

Institute, for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario.

16. 1967 - 1969, Secondary School teacher - Accra Girls’ Secondary School, Accra, Ghana

(with Canadian University Service Overseas).

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:

1. 2011-2014 - Board member, International Review of Education (UNESCO)

2. 2010-2013 - Historian, World Council of Comparative Education Societies.

3. 1996-2000 - Secretary General, World Council of Comparative Education Societies.

4. 1987-91 - President, World Council of Comparative Education Societies

5. 1989-90 - President, Comparative and International Education Society (US)

6. 1989-90 - Member, International Steering Committee, Education for All Conference,

Jomtien, Thailand

7. 1985-87 - President, Comparative and International Education Society of Canada.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Nominations Committee, CIESC, 2013 and 2014

Member, Honorary Fellows Sub-Committee, CIES, 2011-2014

Member, Organising Committee, CIES Conference, Montreal, May 2011

Co-convenor, Cross-Thematic Group, World Congress of Comparative Education, Istanbul, June

2010

2010, Advisory Member, Presidential Search Committee, WCCES

2007 -10, Co-Editor with Suzanne Majhanovich, Nhung Truong and Kara Janigan, Tribute to

David N. Wilson. Clamouring for a Better World.

Organiser and Co-Chair with Suzanne Majhanovich, “Clamouring for a Better World: Panels in

Memory of the Life and Work of David Wilson”, 13th World Congress of Comparative Education

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Societies, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, September 3-7, 2007.

Member, Search Committee for the new WCCES President, elected in September, 2007.

Member, Travel Grant Committee, CIES

2006 – 2011, Series Editor, with Allan Pitman, Sense Publishers: Comparative and International

Education: A Diversity of Voices

2004, Chair, Search Committee for WCCES President.

2000- 2008, Co-opted Member, World Council of Comparative Education Societies.

August 1996 - 2000, Secretary General, World Council of Comparative Education Societies.

June 1998 – 2003 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Comparative Education Review.

1999, Member, Organising Committee, Young Children in Communities, A Women for

P.A.C.E. (Canada) Conference on National Child Day, November 20, 1999.

1990’s, Variously Member and Chair of George Bereday Award Sub-Committee and Gail Kelly

Award Sub-committee.

August 1995 - 1998, Associate Editor (Book Reviews) of Comparative Education Review.

1995-1998, Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Third World Women.

Reviewer of manuscripts for: Comparative Education Review; Canadian Journal of Education;

Curriculum Inquiry; Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Journal of Negro Education;

International Review of Education.

1994-95, Member, Gender and Education Committee; Conference Handbook Planning

Committee; CIES Secretariat Search Committee, CIES (Comparative and International Education

Society - U.S.).

1994, Nominated “Teacher of the Year,” Faculty of Education, University of Toronto.

1993-94, Member of Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Subcommission on Education,

representative of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education.

1992-1996, Chair, Congress Commission, and Member, Executive Committee, World Council of

Comparative Education Societies.

1993-94, Member, Nominating Committee, Gender and Education Committee, CIES.

1992-93, Member, Organizing Committee for CIES annual meeting, Kingston, Jamaica.

1992-94, Chair, Awards Committee, Comparative and International Education Society of

Canada.

1991-93, Representative of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education on the Sub-

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Commission on the Status of Women, Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

1990-94, World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Liaison for follow-up to the World

Conference on Education for All.

1991, Recipient, George Bereday Award for Best CIES Article of 1990: “Ways of Knowing:

Implications for Comparative Education.”

1989-90, Member, International Steering Committee for the World Conference on Education for

All, Bangkok, Thailand, March 1990.

1987-91, President, World Council of Comparative Education Societies.

1989-90, President, Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.). Organizer and

Program Chair, CIES annual meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., March 1989.

Established CIES Gender Committee and supported establishment of CIES UREAG Committee.

1987-88, Vice President and President Elect, Comparative and International Education Society

(U.S.).

1985-87, C.I.E.S.C. (Comparative and International Education Society of Canada)

Representative, World Council of Comparative Education Societies. Meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

1985-87, President, Comparative and International Education Society of Canada.

1983-85, Vice President, Comparative and International Education Society of Canada.

1979-94, Associate Editor, Multiculturalism/Multiculturalisme.

1982-85, Member, Board of Directors, Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.).

Member, Ethics Committee; Member and Chair, Awards Committee

1979-84, Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Comparative Education Review.

1981-85, CIESC Association Editor for Canadian Journal of Education.

1983-84, Member, Board of Directors, Ontario Multicultural Association.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

1. Tradition, Modernity and Post-Modernity in Comparative Education, Vandra Masemann

and Anthony Welch (eds.) Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

2. Common Interests, Uncommon Goals: Histories of the World Council of Comparative

Education Societies and its Members. Vandra Masemann, Mark Bray and Maria Manzon

(eds.). Springer and Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong,

2007.

3. Tribute to David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World, edited by Vandra Masemann,

Suzanne Majhanovich, Nhung Truong, and Kara Janigan. Rotterdam; Sense Publishers,

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2010.

ARTICLES - REFEREED:

1. “The “Hidden Curriculum” of a West African Girls’ Secondary School,” Canadian

Journal of African Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 479-494, 1974.

2. “Anthropological Approaches to Comparative Education,” Comparative Education

Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 368-380, October, 1976.

3. “Multicultural Programs in Toronto Schools,” Interchange, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 29-44,

1978. Reprinted in Cultural Diversity and Schooling in Canada, John Mallea (ed.).

4. “Ethnography of the Bilingual Classroom,” International Review of Education, Vol. 24,

No. 3, pp. 295-307, 1979.

5. “Children’s Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” Multiculturalism, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 4-

10, 1979, and an expanded version in Interchange, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 53-65, 1979-80.

6. “Bilingual Education in the United States,” Compare, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 171-178, 1979.

Republished in German translation as “Zweisprachige Erziehung in den Vereinigten

Staaten: Multikulturelle Erziehung. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1982.

7. “Critical Ethnography in the Study of Comparative Education,” Comparative Education

Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-15, 1982. Reprinted in Education Enquiry, Deakin

University, Australia, 1983. Published in Spanish translation as “Etnografia critica en el

estudio de la educación comparada” in Nuevos enfogues en educación comparada, Philip

Altbach and Gail Kelly (eds.), translated by Miguel Peyrera. Madrid: Mondadori, 1992.

8. “Ways of Knowing; Implications for Comparative Education.” Comparative Education

Review, Presidential Address, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 465-473, 1990. Published in Spanish

translation as “Maneras de saber. Implicationes para la educación comparada.” In Revista

de Educación, No. 99, pp. 221-230, September - December, 1992.

9. “Forces Toward Standardization and Diversity in Curriculum Design: The Case of

Ontario’s Common Curriculum.’” Prospects (Journal of the UNESCO International

Bureau of Education, Geneva, Switzerland), September 1996.

10. “A Comparison of Selected ‘Serious’ and ‘Popular’ British, Canadian, and United

States Newspaper Coverage of Female and Male Athletes Competing in the Centennial

Olympic Games.” John Vincent, Charles Imwold, Vandra Masemann and James T.

Johnson. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, No. 37, Vol. 3-4, pp. 319-335,

2002.

11. “Comparative Education in Canadian Universities”. Marianne Larsen, Suzanne

Majhanovich and Vandra Masemann. Canadian and International Education, vol. no.,

2008.

12. “Education in a Time of Terror: an address given at Kent State University

Comparative Education, 1360-0486, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2008.

. CHAPTERS:

1. “Immigrant Students’ Perceptions of Occupational Programs” in Education of Immigrant

Students, Aaron Wolfgang (ed.) Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,

Symposium Series No. 5, pp. 197-221, 1975.

2. “Comparative Perspectives on Multicultural Education,” Occasional paper of the Department of

Social Foundations, State University of New York at Buffalo, January 1981. Also in CSSE

Yearbook of Education, 1981, pp. 38-48.

3. “School ethnography, plus ça change?” in A Kater (ed.) Anthropologists approaching

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Education. The Hague: NUFFIC, 1982.

4. “Cultural Reproduction in the Bilingual Classroom” in Bruce Bain (ed.) The Sociogenesis of

Language and Human Conduct. New York: Plenum Publishing, 1983.

5. “Equity or Equality: What Shall it Be?” With A. Bennison et al. in Women and Education.

Berkeley: McCutchan Publishing, 1984. (NSSE Series on Contemporary Educational Issues).

6. “The Right to Education for Multicultural Development: Canada and Israel” with Yaacov Iram.

Norma Bernstein Tarrow (ed.) Human Rights and Education, Pergamon Press, 1987.

7. “Access to Education” with K. Mock and K. Lowe in K. McLeod (ed.). Multicultural

Education: A Partnership. Toronto: OISE Press for CCMIE, 1987.

8. “Citizenship Education in Canada: the Current Status of Teaching about Citizenship in

Canadian Elementary and Secondary Schools.” Proceedings of the 13th CESE Conference in

Budapest. Budapest, Hungary: National Educational Library and Museum, 1988, pp. 273-312.

9. “Educational Reform: The Impact of Indigenous Forms of Knowledge.” For The International

Encyclopedia of Education, Pergamon Press, 1994.

10. “Comparative Education Societies.” Idem, 1994.

11. Canada: The Prospects for Pluralistic Educational Forms” in Proceedings of the International

Symposium on Law and Education: Educational Decision-Making in Open Societies.” Peter

Roeder (Ed.) Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin.

12. Chapter entitled “Recent Directions in Comparative Education” for Comparative Education:

Challenges, Intermediation, Practice. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Mitter on the occasion of

his 70th birthday. Festschrift in honour of Professor Wolfgang Mitter, Retiring Director,

German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt, Germany. Böhlau Verlag,

1997

13. “Culture and Education”, in Robert F. Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres (eds.)

Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local. Rowman and Littlefield,

1999, 2003, and 2007).

14. “Conclusion” in Judith Liu and Donald Kelly, The Ethnographic Eye: An Interpretive Study

of Education in China,, New York: Garland Press, 2000.

15. “Contextualising the Dialogue” in Zane Ma Rhea and Robert Teasdale,

Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education, Pergamon Press/Elsevier Science Ltd.,

2000.

16. With Marianne Larsen and Suzanne Majhanovich. “Comparative Education in Canadian

Universities.” In Comparative Education as Discipline at Universities World Wide. Charl

Wolhuter and Nikolay Popov, (Eds.) Sofia, Bulgaria: Bureau for Educational Services, 2007.

17. “Gender and Education” with Kara Janigan. In Issues in Comparative Education for

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Teacher Education. Karen Mundy et al (eds.). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, Inc., 2008.

18. “Culture and Education”, in Robert F. Arnove, Carlos Alberto Torres and Stephen Franz (eds.)

Comparative Education:The Dialectic of the Global and the Local. Lanham, Maryland:

Rowman and Littlefield, (4th edition, 2013), pp.113-131.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS:

1. Review of Les Montagnards Paléonigritiques, By J.C. Froelich in Man, Vol. 4, No. 1, p.

153, March, 1969.

2. Review of West African Trade and Coast Society, by M. Priestly in Man, Vol. 5, No. 2,

p. 333, June, 1970.

3. “Comments on the Papers by Barrett, Levi and Lumsden”. Manpower and

Unemployment Research in Africa, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 46-47, November, 1971.

4. Review of Can Language Be Planned? Sociolinguistic Theory and Practice for

Developing Nations, J. Ruben and B. Jernudd (ed.), The English Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 1,

pp. 65-67, June, 1974.

5. Review of Les étudiants africains au Canada by Serge Genest in Canadian Journal of

African Studies, Vol. 1, 1974.

6. “Occupational Graduates and the Labour Force,” with A. Kazanjian, Orbit 6 1:3-6,

February, 1975.

7. “Reaction to the Wright Paper” in D. Ryan and T. Barr Greenfield (eds.),

Clarifying the Class Size Question, Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in

Education for the Ministry of Education, pp. 123-129, 1976.

8. Review of Rites and Relationships: Rites of Passage and Contemporary Anthropology, by

Monika Vizedom in Comparative Education Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 359-360, June,

1978.

9. “Not only in India: Caste Barriers and the Job Ceiling in America,” Review of Minority

Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural perspective, by John Ogbu

in Journal of Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 91-222, 1979.

10. Essay review of Social Origins of Educational Systems by Margaret Archer.

Comparative Education Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 111-115, 1981.

11. Review of The State, the Family and Education by Miriam E. David in Comparative

Education Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 315-316, 1982.

12. “Commentaries on Epstein by Carnoy, Foster, Masemann, Noah and Holmes.”

Comparative Education Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 38-39, 1983.

13. Review of Poverty, Power and Authority in Education: Cross-cultural Perspectives edited

by Edgar B. Gumbert in Comparative Education Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 144-145,

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1983.

14. Review of Cultural Pluralism and Common Curriculum by Brian Crittenden in Journal of

Educational Thought, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 265-267, 1983.

15. Review of Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology in Action,

edited by George Spindler in Canadian and International Education, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1984.

16. Review of La quête du savoir: Essais pour une anthropologie de l’education

camerounaise edited by Renaud Santerre and Celine Mercier-Tremblay in Comparative

Education Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 293-294, 1986.

17. Review of Bilingual and Multicultural Education: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Stan

Shapson and Vincent D’Oyley and Immigration and Bilingual Education, by Arturo Tosi

in Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 225-228, 1986.

18. Review of Education and Cultural Pluralism, edited by Maurice Craft and Multicultural

Education: Towards Good Practice, edited by Ranjit Arora and Carlton Duncan in

Comparative Education Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 462-464, 1987.

19. “Multiculturalism and Health: A Personal View” in Multicultural Health Coalition

Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 2-3, 1987.

20. Review of Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures,

edited by Nelly Stromquist and Karen Monkman in Comparative Education Review,

Vol.46, No.1, pp 134-136, 2002.

21. “Commentary on Carnoy” With others. Comparative Education Review, vol. 50, No. 4, pp.

571-80, 2006.

22. Review of COUNCIL OF EUROPE. DIRECTORATE OF

EDUCATION AND LANGUAGES, 2010. Living in Diversity: Lesson Plans for

Secondary Level Students (developed by teachers and trainers from

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine, participating in Council of

Europe seminars). Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing. In the

International Review of Education, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 429-430, June 2012.

23. Review of Readingirls: The Lives and Literacies of Adolescents, by Hadar Dubowsky

Ma’ayan, Teachers College Pre4ss, New York and London, 2012, 145pp., International

Review of Education, International Review of Education, September 2013.

TEACHING:

1. Kent State University, Ohio (summer 2004)

Graduate course: Teaching in a Time of Terror

2. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (1972-75) (2001-2010)

Graduate Courses: Adolescent Socialization

Sociology of Women in Education

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Comparative Education

Comparative Education: The Development of Third World

Education Systems

Introduction to Comparative, International, and Development Education

Education

Methodologies for Comparing Education Systems

3. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1975-80)

Graduate Courses: Anthropology and Education

Urban Education in Cross-cultural Perspective

Problems in Educational Policy:

Multiculturalism and Education

Undergraduate School and Society

Courses: Anthropology and Education

4. University of Toronto (1978-82) (1987-94)

Preservice teacher education: Comparative Education

Education and Society

Cross-cultural Education

Teaching: Students, Schools, and Systems.

Inservice teacher education: Ministry of Education courses - Multiculturalism in

education (Parts I, II, and III)

5. Scarborough College, University of Toronto

(Summer, 1984) Childhood in contemporary cultures.

(Winter, 1992) Anthropology and Psychology

6. State University of New York at Buffalo (1989, 1994, and 1999)

Foundations of Education (M.Ed. and Ph.D. level)

Ethnographic Research Methods in Education (Ph.D. level seminar)

Sociology of Teaching (Ph.D. level seminar)

Education and Culture (Graduate lecture class)

Comparative and Global Studies in Education (Graduate seminar)

7. Florida State University (1995-1998)

Graduate Courses: Education and Culture

Qualitative Research Methods

Special Topics in Comparative Education:

Gender, Knowledge,and Education

Undergraduate Courses:Schooling in America

Teaching Diverse Populations

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Introduction to Education

8. University of Pittsburgh (2000)

Graduate Courses: Education and Culture

Case Studies in Educational Policy

CONSULTING PROJECTS:

2008. Ontario’s Equity Strategy. Research on Inclusivity in Ontario Faculties of Education.

Ministry of Education, Ontario.

2005-2006, Co-investigator, with Karen Mundy, Principal Investigator, “Charting the Canadian

Global Education Landscape: How Provinces, Districts, and Schools are Engaging in

International Development Education.” For UNICEF Canada.

2003, External evaluator of Tertiary Education Linkage Project, USAID/United College Fund

funded partnership between University of Central Florida Consortium and Vista University,

South Africa.

1997-8, The Role of Women’s Voluntary Associations in the Teaching of Numeracy and Literacy

in Four West African Countries, funded by the Association for Basic Education and Literacy

(ABEL).

1993 to 1995. National Study “Multicultural Education: The State of the Art.” For Canadian

Association of Second Language Teachers (reviewer of proposals and associate editor of first

publication).

1994, “Dealing with Diversity at the Local Agency Level.” Workshop for Big Sisters of Ontario,

report for Big Sisters of Canada. November 1993, March..

1994, Multicultural Needs Assessment of Staff at Havergal College, Toronto, April..

1993, Evaluation and Review of Mayor’s Committee on Multiculturalism and Race Relations.

For Borough of East York, Ontario, May to October.

1992, National Needs Assessment for Delivery of Services to Ethnocultural and Racial Minority

Women and Girls. For Big Sisters of Canada, January to October.

1992, Archivist/Scribe for Symposium on Crisis Management and Conflict Mediation. For

Greater Toronto Region Working Group on Policing in Multicultural, Multiracial Urban

Communities, May.

1992, Review of Arts Broadcasting. For TV Ontario (educational network for Ontario, January to

April.

1990-91, “Partners in Change” Project, East York, Ontario, September to June.

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1989, Survey of Race and Ethnocultural Equity Policy Development and Implementation in

Ontario School Boards (with Dr. Karen R. Mock) for Ministry of Education, Province of Ontario.

1988, Learning Styles in Marginalized Groups in Latin America, bibliographical search for

REDUC (Red Latinoamericana de informacion y Documentacion en Educacion).

1984-89, Researcher and evaluator for the Greater Toronto Regional Working Group on Policing

in Multicultural, Multiracial Urban Communities.

1988, Researcher for paper on Daycare Needs of Visible Minorities in Canada (with Dr. Karen R.

Mock) for Special Parliamentary Committee on Daycare, Ottawa.

1987, Access to Government Services in Ontario for Racial Minorities (with Dr. Karen Mock) for

Race Relations Division, Ontario Human Rights Commission.

1987, The Current Status of Teaching About Citizenship in Canadian Elementary and Secondary

Schools, for Citizenship Registration and Promotion, Secretary of State.

1985-86, Survey of Multicultural Teacher Education in Canada (project of Dr. Karen Mock, grant

from Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State).

1985, Review of Provincial Government Citizenship Programs and Activities (funded by

Citizenship Registration Branch, Secretary of State).

1983-84, Position paper on Multiculturalism in Canada for OECD, Paris (funded by the

Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State).

1983, Case Study Project: a study of ethnic access to education in six Canadian cities (funded by

the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State).

1983, National Needs Assessment Survey for Canadian Council for Multicultural and

Intercultural Education.

1982, Review of the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and Citizenship (funded by

O.A.C.M.C.).

1980-83, Early Kindergartens in Toronto: The shift to child-centered pedagogy.

1976-79, Project Director-Towards a conceptualization of research methodology for evaluating

bilingual education in the classroom: an interdisciplinary approach. Funded by Spencer

Foundation 1976-77, 1977-78.

1974, Project Director - An Evaluation of the Student Guidance Information Service - Ministry of

Education, Province of Ontario funded contract.

1972-73, Project Director - Follow-up of graduates from the occupational programs in Ontario

schools - Ministry of Education, Province of Ontario funded contract.

REPORTS:

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1. For E. B. Harvey, Occupational Graduates and the Labor Force, Toronto: Ontario

Institute for Studies in Education for the Ministry of Education, 1975.

2. For E. B. Harvey with A. Kazanjian, An Evaluation of the Student Guidance Information

Service, Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for the Ministry of Education,

1975.

3. For E. B. Harvey with M. Slaght, An Evaluation of the Career Development Credit

Course, Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for the Ministry of Education,

1975.

4. Bilingual Education in Milwaukee: An Interdisciplinary Study, June, 1977

(mimeographed).

5. The Canadian Community, for Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, June, 1979

(mimeographed). Summary of Proceedings for two day consultation at Halifax, May,

1979.

6. Ten Years in Review: The Work and Activities of the Ontario Advisory Council on

Multiculturalism and Citizenship. (Mimeographed, in-house), 1982.

7. Access to Education: A Manual for Community Groups (Multiculturalism Directorate,

Secretary of State, Ottawa). With Karen R. Mock and Keith D. Lowe.

8. Multicultural Needs Assessment Survey and Winnipeg 1981 Conference Follow-up

Survey. Interim Report. With Keith D. Lowe et al.

9. A Brief to the Special Committee on the Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian

Society. Toronto: Intercultural Associates, 1984.

10. Education and Cultural and Linguistic Pluralism (ECALP): Country Surveys-Canada

with Jim Cummins. Under contract with Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State,

Ottawa, for OECD, Paris, 1984.

11. Future Policy Directions in Multicultural Education: Program Directions for the

Multiculturalism Directorate in Response to “Equality Now”. For Multiculturalism

Directorate Secretary of State, Ottawa, 1984.

12. Replies from the Provinces: Summary of Responses to the ECALP Survey for OECD.

For Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State, Ottawa, 1984.

13. Multicultural Policy in Teachers’ and Trustees’ Organizations. For Multiculturalism

Directorate, Secretary of State, Ottawa, 1984.

14. Symposium on Policing in Multicultural, Multiracial Urban Communities, Conference

Rapporteur’s Summary Report. For the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State

and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, October, 1984.

15. Evaluation Report. Second National Conference on Multicultural and Intercultural

Education. For the Canadian Council for Multicultural and Intercultural Education,

February, 1985.

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16. Developing Partnerships: Report on the Second National Multicultural Conference on

Multicultural and Intercultural Education. For the CCMIE, May, 1985.

17. Progress Report December 1984 - July 1985. For the Greater Toronto Region Group on

Policing in Multicultural, Multiracial Urban Communities, August, 1985.

18. Review of Provincial Government Citizenship Programs and Activities. Final Report,

Parts 1 and 2. For the Citizenship Registration Branch, Secretary of State, October, 1985.

19. “The Culture of Scouting: Ethnic Diversity Then and Now” in Scouting in a

Multicultural Society: A Resource Manual for Trainers and Volunteers. Karen R. Mock

and Vandra L. Masemann. For Scouts Canada, Greater Toronto Region, 1986.

20. Seven Successful Small Business Entrepreneurs, Report #2 of Economic Contributions

to Canadian Life. With S. Dutt, K. McLeod and K. Mock. For Multiculturalism Canada,

1986.

21. Citizenship Education in Canada. For Secretary of State, Ottawa and Canadian

Education Association, 1987.

22. Access to Government Services for Racial Minorities in Ontario. For Race Relations

Division, Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1987.

23. Learning Styles in Marginalized Groups in Latin America, for REDUC. Mimeographed

and on disc, 1988.

24. Survey of Race and Ethnocultural Equity Policy Development and Implementation in

Ontario School Boards, for Ministry of Education, Province of Ontario, 1991.

25. Partners in Change: A Needs Assessment of Municipal and Community Services in East

York for Racial and Ethnocultural Minorities, funded by the Ministry of Citizenship,

Province of Ontario, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, and the Borough of East

York, 1991.

26. The Role of Women’s Voluntary Associations in the Acquisition of Literacy and

Numeracy in Four West African Countries, funded by ABEL, 1997.

27. Charting Global Education in Canada’s Elementary Schools: Provincial, District and

School Level Perspectives. Principal Author Karen Mundy. Co-authored by Caroline

Manion, Vandra Masemann, and Megan Haggerty. Toronto: UNICEF Canada, 2007.

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES:

1974, Chairperson and organizer of panel, “O.I.S.E. and African Education,” at Canadian

Association of African Studies Conference, Halifax, 1974.

“The School as a Mediator of Social Change,” Canadian Association of African Studies

Conference, Halifax, 1974.

“Gender, Roles and Aspirations, A Comparative Study: Females in Canada and Ghana,” (co-

authored with Mary Maxwell, Queen’s University) Canadian Sociology and Anthropology

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Association Conference, August, 1974.

1975, Coordinator and organizer of sessions on education for Canadian Association of African

Studies Conference, York University, Toronto, March, 1975.

Panelist in session “Theory and Method in Comparative Education,” invited paper entitled

“Comparative Studies of Education in the Anthropological Mode” at Comparative and

International Education Society annual meeting, San Francisco, March, 1975.

1976, “Multicultural Programs in Toronto Schools.” Comparative and International Educational

Society annual meeting, Toronto, February, 1976.

“Anthropological Approaches to Language Learning.” Presentation at 15th Annual Whitewater

Foreign Language Conference, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 10.

Participant at Wingspread Seminar on International Cooperation in Education. Centre for

Educational Research and Innovation, O.E.C.D., and Johnson Foundation, April 27-29, 1976.

1977, “Cultural Reproduction in the Classroom: Rethinking School Ethnography” Invited

address, Concordia University Research Frontiers in Education: The Concordia International

Conference, February 12, 1979. “Is Neo-Marxist School Ethnography Possible?”

Comparative and International Education Society annual meeting, Ann Harbor, Michigan, March,

1979. Organizer of panel “Comparative Education from a Distance: some skeptical Views.”

1980, “Critical Perspectives on Issues in Comparative Education.” Organizer and chair of panel,

presenter of overview paper, at Comparative and International Education Society annual meeting,

Vancouver, March, 1980.

“A Critique of Social Origins of Educational Systems” paper presented at C.I.E.S. meeting,

Vancouver, 1980.

“Comparative Perspectives on Multicultural Education” invited paper at conference Multicultural

Education, sponsored by Department of Social Foundations, Faculty of Education Studies, SUNY

Buffalo, November 14, 1980.

1981, “Bilingual Education in Milwaukee: Critical Analysis of the Data,” paper presented at

C.I.E.S. meeting, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1981.

Symposium participant “Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct” Canadian

Psychological Association meetings, Toronto, June, 1981.

“Culture, Language and the Classroom.” Presentation at National Conference on Multicultural

Education, Winnipeg, November, 1981.

1982, “Kindergartens in Toronto 1883-1900: Pedagogies Visible and Invisible” for Canadian

History of Education Association Conference. “The New Education in Canada,” Toronto,

February 12-13, 1982.

Chairperson and organizer of panel “Schooling and the Lived Culture of Students: Canada, the

United States, and England” for C.I.E.S. meeting, New York, March 18-21, 1982.

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1984, “Access to Education: Case Studies of Ethnocultural Community Participation,” paper

presented at C.I.E.S. meeting, Houston, Texas, March, 1984.

Chair, “Ethnicity and Education” panel “Access to Education: A Symposium on Canadian Case

Studies,” with Karen Mock. Keith Lowe at C.I.E.S.C. sessions of C.S.S.E. Conference, Guelph,

Ontario, June, 1984.

1985, “Multicultural Policy Making in Canada: Limits and Possibilities” Speech to the Ontario

Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and Citizenship, Orillia, Ontario, April 12, 1985.

“Policies for Reform of Schools in Canada in Conditions of Cultural and Linguistic Pluralism,”

paper presented at C.I.E.S. meeting, Stanford University, California, April, 1985.

“Policies for Linguistic and Cultural Pluralism in Canada,” paper presented at CSSE meeting,

Université de Montréal, May, 1985.

“Looking into the Face of Your Neighbour,” Keynote speech for conference “The Island’s

Multicultural Face,” Prince Edward Island Multicultural Council, Charlottetown, July, 1985.

“Multiculturalism, Race and Ethnic Relations: A Canadian Perspective.” Speech to Frontenac-

Lennox and Addington County Roman Catholic Separate School Board, Professional

Development Day, October 25, 1986.

“The Right to Education for Multicultural Development: Canada and Israel,” paper presented at

the C.I.E.S. Western Region Conference, Long Beach, California, November, 1985.

1986, “Scouting in a Multicultural Society.” Three workshops for Scouts Canada, Greater

Toronto Region with Karen Mock, January, February and March, 1986.

“Cross-cultural Resources for Psychologists.” Presentation on Ontario Psychological Association

annual meeting, Toronto, February, 1986.

“Cross-National Perspectives on Minority Group Relations” Chaired panel at C.I.E.S. annual

meeting, Toronto, March, 1986.

“Citizenship Education and Multiculturalism.” Presentation at Ontario Multicultural Association

(OMAMO) Conference, Toronto, April, 1986.

“Multicultural Teacher Education in Canada.” Presentation with Karen Mock. CSSE Annual

Conference, Winnpeg, June, 1986.

“Citizenship and the School Curriculum.” Presentations at the conference, Human Rights, Race

Relations and Citizenship, sponsored by the Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County,

October, 1986.

“Community Maturity” South Asians in the 90’s.” Presentation at the Conference in Search of

Community Excellence, sponsored by the Citizenship Development Branch of the Ontario

Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, Toronto, November, 1986.

1987, “Educational Responses to Refugees: The Canadian Experience.” Presentation to C.I.E.S.

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meeting, Washington, D.C., March, 1987.

“Multicultural Teacher Education in Canada.” Paper presented at World Congress of

Comparative Education, Rio de Janeiro, July, 1987.

“Citizenship Education in Canada.” Paper presented at C.C.M.I.E. Conference, Edmonton,

November, 1987.

“Recruitment and Selection of Visible Minority Police Officers.” Paper presented at C.C.M.I.E.

Conference, Edmonton, November, 1987.

1988, “Citizenship Education in Canada: The Peaceable Kingdom.” Presentation to C.I.E.S.

meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1988.

“Citizenship Education in Canada: Teaching for Democracy.” Presentation to meeting of

Comparative Education Society of Europe, Budapest, Hungary, July, 1988.

Conference Rapporteur for Symposium on Multicultural Policing, Ontario Association of Chiefs

of Police, Aylmer, Ontario, October, 1988.

1989, Member, Organizing Committee, World Congress of Comparative Education Societies,

Montreal, June.

International Steering Committee meeting on Would Conference on Education for All,

International Institute of Educational Planning, Paris, France, October, 1989.

North American Regional Forum on World Conference on Education for All, Boston, Mass.,

November, 1989.

“Who Owns Knowledge? Imperatives for Paradigm Shifts in the Voices of Minorities and

Women.” Invited plenary speaker for Northeastern Regional Conference of C.I.E.S., University

of Connecticut at Storrs, November, 1989.

1990, Consultation of Non-Governmental Organizations at UNICEF Headquarters in New York

for World Conference on Education for All, January, 1990.

Canadian Commission for Unesco meetings in Ottawa for World Conference on Education for

All, February and April 1990.

World Conference on Education for All, Jomtien, Thailand, Speaker in Plenary Session for North

America, March, 1990.

Organizer and Chair of panel, “Scouting as an International Educational Reform Movement,”

CIES annual meeting, Anaheim, California, March, 1990.

“Race and Ethnocultural Equity Policy Development in Ontario School Boards.” Paper presented

at CSSE meetings, Victoria, June, 1990. Also at the Comparative Education Society in Europe

14th Congress, Madrid, Spain, June, 1990.

1991, Organizer and Chair of Past President’s Panel, “Educational Change in Eastern Europe.”

CIES meetings, Pittsburgh, March, 1991.

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Respondent to Psacharopoulos, Adams and Paulston on panel “Ways of Knowing,” chaired by

Erwin Epstein, CIES, March, 1991.

“Cultural Diversity and Ways of Knowing: Challenges for Teacher Education in Canada.: Paper

presented to Chinese Comparative Education Society-Taipei and Chinese Teacher Education

Society, Taiwan, December, 1991.

1992, Organizer and Presenter in Symposium on Methodological Issues in Comparative

Education. “Ethnographic Research in a North American Urban Population.” CIES annual

meeting, Annapolis, MD, March 12-15, 1992.

Presenter of “Evaluating the Training of Police Officers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Response to Changing Employment Policies and a Changing Public.” Comparative Education

Society in Europe, Dijon, France, June 28-July 4, 1992.

Presenter of “The UNESCO World Education Report: A Critique” at the World Congress of

Comparative Education, Prague, Czech and Slovak Federated Republic, July, 1992.

Co-chair, with Leslie Limage, UNESCO, of Commission on Basic Education, Literacy, and

Follow-up to the World Conference on Education for All, also at Prague.

1993, Presenter of “The Life and Rights of Children: Does Society Protect Them?” Invited paper

at the International Symposium on Modernization and Educational Reforms, Waseda University,

Tokyo, January, 1993. Also Chair of Plenary Session: “The Life and Rights of Children.”

Presenter of “Canada: The Prospects for Pluralistic Educational Reform.” Invited paper at the

International Symposium on Law and Education, “Educational Decision-Making in Open

Societies,” at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, March 1993.

1994, Presenter of “Ontario’s Common Curriculum: A Study of Centripetal and Centrifugal

Forces.” CIES annual meeting, San Diego, CA, March 1994.

Presenter of “Children’s Rights in Comparative Perspective: Symbolic Violence and the Least

Powerful.” CIESC annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June, 1994.

Invited speaker “Challenges for Teacher Education in Canada.” Universidad Pedagogica

Nacional, Mexico City, November, 1994.

1995, Presented paper “Educational Reform: the Impact of Indigenous Forms of Knowledge” at

Comparative and International Education Society, Boston, March 1995.

“A Newcomer’s View of Multicultural Education: a Comparative Perspective”. Presentation at

Florida Foundations of Education and Policy Studies Society, Gainesville, Florida, April 1995.

1996, “Anthropological Perspectives on the World Bank Education Sector Paper,” at the annual

meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Williamsburg, VA, March 6-10,

1996.

Organizer and Co-Chair of Research Commission, “Indigenous Education,” for World Congress

of Comparative Education, Sydney, Australia, July 1996.

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1998, “Resident and Alien: The Other Side of Multiculturalism”, invited Address to International

Relations Subcommittee, AERA, San Diego, CA, April 14, 1998.

Organizer and Co-Chair of Research Commission, “Indigenous Education,” for World Congress

of Comparative Education, Cape Town, South Africa, July 1998.

1999, Chair, Panel: “Globalization: Women are not taking it lying down.” CIES Annual Meeting,

Toronto, March 14-18.

Discussant, Panel: Comparative Education and Ethnographic Method: The China Case,” CIES,

Toronto.

Chair and Discussant, Panel: “Gender Challenges I: Engendering Comparative Education

Theory,” CIES, Toronto.

Chair and Discussant, Panel: “Gender Challenges II: Engendering Comparative Education

Methodology,” CIES, Toronto.

Speaker, Roundtable: Comparative Education in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Canada and

Hong Kong.” CIES, Toronto.

2000, Invited Speaker, Women’s Studies Program, Nippissing University. “How Far Have

Women Come by the Year 2000?: A Global Perspective on Women, Education, and Work.”

Chair, Panel: “Rethinking Visual Representation, Women and Media Transmission of

Knowledge.” CIES Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 8-11.

Chair, Panel: “Old Scraps, New Threads: Quilting Enduring Patterns for Sustainable

Communities.” CIES, San Antonio.

Panelist, “The World Bank’s 1999 Education Sector Strategy: A Critical Discussion.” CIES, San

Antonio.

Presented paper, “Implications of Globalization for the Role of Schooling: Dialectic of the Global

and the Local.” Comparative and International Education Society of Canada Meetings,

Edmonton, Alberta, June, 2000.

Panelist, “The Eleventh World Congress of Comparative Education.” CIES, San Antonio.

2001, Chair and panelist, “Looking Forward by Looking Forward : the Roles of Women

Presidents in the CIES.” Comparative and International Education Society Meeting, Washington,

D.C., March 2001.

Panelist, “Archives and the Uses of Memory.” CIES, Washington, D.C.

2002, Panelist in Symposium, “The Right to Education”. CIES meetings, Orlando, Florida,

March 2002.

2004, Panelist in Symposium, “Beyond Good and Evil.” CIES meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah,

March, 2004.

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2004, Chair and organiser, Panel : “Going against the Flow: Deconstructing the Idea of

Development as Freedom.” CIES meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gerald Read Lecture, “Teaching in a Time of Terror: Implications for Comparative Education.”

Kent State University, Ohio,USA, July 2004.

Chair and organizer, Three panels, World Council of Comparative Education Societies

Comparative History Project, 12th World Congress of Comparative Education, Havana, Cuba,

October, 2004.

2005, Chair and organizer, Two panels, WCCES Comparative Histories project, CIES meeting,

Stanford University, March 2005.

2005, Panelist, Symposium, “Educators as Peace Makers”, CIES Meeting, Stanford University,

March 2005.

2005, Chair and organizer, Panel, WCCES Comparative Histories Project, CIESC Meeting,

London, Ontario, May 2005.

Guest speaker, “Culture and Education”. Comparative Education Research Centre, University of

Hong Kong, November 2005.

2006, Chair and organizer, Symposium: “Rethinking the Comparative, Plus ça change…” CIES

Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2006.

Chair and organizer, Panel: “The CIES and the WCCES Comparative Histories Project.” CIES

Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2006.

Keynote speaker, launch of new CICE journal on 50 years of CIES. Teachers College, Columbia,

April 17, 2006.

Member of symposium on Multiculturalism, Peace and Development: Independent or Co-

dependent? CIESC meeting, York University, Toronto, May 2006.

2007, Chair and presenter (for Marianne Larsen) and discussant, Panel, “Insecurity and the Desire

for Security in Educational Contexts”, CIES Meeting, Baltimore MD, March 2007.

Chair and Organizer, CIES New Scholars’ Session “Family Stress and Academic Life”, CIES

Meeting, Baltimore MD, March 2007.

Participant, Symposium, “What’s in a Name? How our Association came to be called the

Comparative and International Education Society”. Chaired by Erwin Epstein. CIES Meeting ,

2007.

Faculty Discussant for PhD Students’ Proposals, New Scholars Workshop, CIES Meeting.

Chair, Panel, “Global Education: Views from Canada and the United States”, and presenter, paper

on “Global Education in Canada: Provincial, District and School Perspectives at the Elementary

Level.” CIESC Meeting, Saskatoon, Sask., May 27, 2007.

Discussant, papers by Melissa Blinkie and Essie Lom in CCGSE Roundtables, CSSE Meeting,

Saskatoon, Sask., May 28. 2007.

2008, Panelist “Teaching Comparative and International Education in 25 Countries”, CIESC,

University of British Columbia.

2008, Paper on teaching comparative education in Canadian universities, Bulgarian Comparative

Education Society.

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2009, Panelist “Teaching Comparative and International Education in 25 Countries”, CIES,

Charleston, USA.

2010, Plenary Panelist, “Re-imagining the Comparative and International Education Society”

CIES, Chicago.

2010, “A Tribute to David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World”, Chair and panelist,

CIESC Meeting, Montreal, May 29-June 1 and World Congress, Istanbul, June 14-18.

2010, “The 40th Anniversary of WCCES”, Panelist, Istanbul, World Congress, June 14-18.

2011, “Tribute to Bob Arnove”, Discussant, CIES Conference, Montreal, May 1-5.

2011, Conference Rapporteur, 4th Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education. Global

Educational Reform: Equity, Quality and Development. Beijing Normal University, Beijing,

China. October 22-24, 2011.

2013, “How to produce a publishable quality research paper” for the New Scholars Essentials

Workshop, Tips on Writing and Publishing, CIES, New Orleans, March 10-15.

2014, “Scouting’s Non-Formal Education: What is there to be learned?” Session in Memory of

Joe Farrell. Keynote Speaker Eduard Vallory. Session Organiser and Chair. CIES, Toronto,

March 11.

MEMBERSHIPS:

Comparative and International Education Society (U.S.)

Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Comparative and International Education Society of Canada

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:

2013 - Editor with Donna Halliday and David Fuller, Malvern C. I. at 110: 1903-2013, 78pp.

Toronto: Malvern Red and Black Society, 2013.

2008-2011 and 2013-present – President, Malvern Red and Black Society (Alumni/ae), Malvern

CI, Toronto

2009-present – Social Convenor – West Toronto Junction Historical Society

2009-2011 – Vice President and Chair, Education Committee, P.A.C.E. (Canada). Project for the

Advancement of Childhood Education, Toronto

2004-present - Chair, Archives Committee, Member of Executive Committee, Malvern Red and

Black Society, Malvern Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Canada.

2006-7, Member, Centennial Committee, Balmy Beach Community School, Toronto.

2003-2004 - Member, Centennial Reunion Organizing Committee, Malvern Collegiate Institute,

Toronto; Chair, Archives Committee;

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Editor with Donna Halliday and Paula Warder: Malvern Centennial Book, 80pp. Toronto:

Britannia Printers Inc. May 2003.

1999-2002 - Vice President, President, and Past President, University of Toronto Schools

Parents’ Association

1990-1994 - Executive Committee Member and President, Rosedale School Association, Toronto

1987 - present, Founding Member, Women for P.A.C.E., now P.A.C.E. Canada (Project for the

Advancement of Childhood Education) , Adopt-a-School Program in Jamaica. (Stephen James

Basic School, Duncans, Trelawney, Jamaica)

1987-1990 - Chair of the Board, Waterfront Montessori Children’s Centre, Toronto

1983-1998, Volunteer, Rosedale-Moore Park Community Association, Toronto

1980’s - Co-secretary, Toronto Montessori School Parents’ Association

1980’s - Volunteer, Girl Guides of Canada

1975-78 - Board Member, Madison Montessori School, Madison, Wisconsin